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Author Kneupper, Frances Courtney, author.

Title The empire at the end of time : identity and reform in late medieval German prophecy / Frances Courtney Kneupper
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
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Contents Context -- Audience and reception -- Individual prophecies of late medieval German-speaking Europe -- The Gamaleon prophecy -- The letter of Brother Sigwalt -- The Auffahrt Abend prophecy -- The Wirsberger letters -- Themes in late medieval German prophecy -- The church and clergy in prophetic thought -- German identity in prophetic thought
Summary Even within the sensational genre of eschatological prophecy, the prophecies of the late medieval Empire stand out as strikingly bitter and violent texts. They foresee the savage chastisement of the clergy, the murder of clerics, and the forceful restructuring of the Church. But they also infuse the apocalyptic narrative with explicitly German elements. German speakers are frequently cast as the agents of these stirring events, in which the clergy suffer tribulations and the Church hierarchy is torn down. Thus the central argument of this book is that popular German prophecies encouraged a vision of members of the Empire as the ordained reformers of Christendom at the end of time
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 28, 2016)
Subject Eschatology -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Nationalism -- Germany -- History
Group identity -- Germany -- History
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Eschatology.
Group identity
Nationalism
Germany
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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